And why do American children, living in the great U S of A need psychiatric
drugs in the first place?nbsp; Why are so many US children depressed?
nbsp;
I think it's an indictment of the modern lifestyle when pre-schoolers are
diagnosed as 'clinically depressed' and prescribednbsp;Prozac,nbsp;Zoloft and
even stronger drugs that have been shown to increase suicidal
tendencies.nbsp;nbsp;
http://www.upliftprogram.com/depression_stats.html
Pre-schoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least four
percent of preschoolers -- over a million -- are clinically depressed.
The rate of increase of depression among children is an astounding 23%
p.a.nbsp;
One doesn't know whether to believe those figures since these corrupt
researchers/academics could have deliberately inflated those numbers in order
to be able to sellnbsp;even more psychiatric drugs and psychiatric consulting
servicesnbsp;
The medical fraud is quite blatant - nothing subtle here. Scientists, neical
researchers etc. are now quite corrupt.nbsp;
The most common one is as described in the article about Harvard medics - they
approve/recommend drugs after having secretly having received money from the
drug companies.nbsp;Same story with articles submitted to famous medical
journals such as The Lancet - quite often the authors are being
paidnbsp;secretly via undisclosed 'consulting contracts' by the drug
companiesnbsp;for writingnbsp; favourable articles. On top of that,
manynbsp;articles have been ghost writtennbsp;by the drug companies, the
academic researcher just puts his name on them and submits them for
publication.nbsp;
The drug compaies like Pfizer, Glaxo etc. often do the human studies themselves
and send the test results to the FDA which appovesnbsp;drugs for human
usage.It has been shown several times that the drug companiesnbsp;routinely
hide tests that turned out to be unfavourable. So say the FDA sees 5 studies, 4
favourable, one neutral. nbsp;But actually the drug company conducted 8
studies, the patient died in 3 of them so they just hid those 3 and sent in
thenbsp;other 5 to the FDA!nbsp;This can't happen without the active
collusion of the doctors/researchers who conducted the studies. In a very few
cases there have been 'whistleblowers' (usually in the governement agencies,
not in the drug companies whosenbsp; employees are paid very well)nbsp;who
usually end up losing their jobs.nbsp;nbsp;
Sun, 6/8/08, Jogesh Motwani lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:
From: Jogesh Motwani lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;
Subject: children's medicine researchers
To: zest lt;zestalternative@yahoogroups.comgt;
Cc: Dr. Leo Rebello lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;, Rakesh Khanna lt;[EMAIL
PROTECTED]gt;, FTG Herbarium lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;, Jagannath
Chatterjee lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;, Tapan Shah lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;,
Thomas Victor lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;, [EMAIL PROTECTED], chat lt;[EMAIL
PROTECTED]gt;
Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008, 10:54 PM
got the bastards!
Harvard medics 'concealed drug firm cash'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/harvard-medics-concealed-drug-firm-cash-842792.html
By Guy Adams
Monday, 9 June 2008
Harvard University is at the centre of an academic and political
scandal after three prominent members of its psychiatry department
were accused of breaking conflict-of-interest rules by failing to
declare millions of dollars in consulting fees from drugs
manufacturers.
An investigation by Senator Charles E Grassley uncovered evidence that
Dr Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist who helped
fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines,
neglected to tell university officials that he had earned at least
$1.6m (£810,000) from pharmaceutical companies that make them.
etc.